especially when you consider in 2004, george bush, a campaign you helped won, won the narrow est margin victorvictory. obama, 2 1/2 points feels pretty good. i'm actually -- i'm with you. i'm not totally pessimistic about doing the big vote on the budget. in 2013. like 1973, when they sent back divided government. looking forward, the question is, when the country is so closely divided and the parties are so deeply divided how do we function? >> donna. >> in 2010, after that election, even that was a contentious election. the president was able to muster support the republicans and democrats to extend the bush tax cuts the payroll -- >> i was struck this week to read, that actually liberals seem to be getting a touch more nervous of president obama winning. they want him to win. they're a little bit nervous that he's going to sell out to the republicans on the budget. >> well, they're worried about the grand bargain being a grand attack on entitlements at the expense of, you know, extending the bush tax cuts for another two, four years. >> look, if he does what he says he's going to do,